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As Brown’s first associate provost for artificial intelligence, he has a campus-wide charge to steer the University through the tectonic shifts of machine learning—and thwart the paper-clip singularity.

Dear Class of 2025,

We’re leaving Brown together—you’re graduating, I’m retiring. Most of you started in 2021 (wearing masks). I started teaching at Brown in 1976 (maskless but with darker and longer hair), before there was a CS department. Most of you have spent four years here; I’ve spent my entire professional career at Brown.

According to The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University is the top producing school of Fulbright U.S. students for the 2024-25 academic year. It's the fifth time Brown has earned the recognition in the past decade. 

 

A new article from The Brown Daily Herald interviews Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, who has just been appointed as Brown’s first Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, a newly established leadership position with a campus-wide charge to advance, in a responsible manner, Brown’s engagement with AI across its academic missions.

 

In another story from the latest issue of Conduit, our annual magazine, Brown CS doctoral student Jason Xinyu Liu shares how he develops intelligent robots that assist people by executing natural language instructions from humans autonomously and safely.

In another story from the latest issue of Conduit, our annual magazine, Brown CS undergraduate Robayet Hossain talks about his experience working with Brown CS faculty member Nora Ayanian's Automatic Coordination
of Teams (ACT) Lab.

Brown's Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV) are putting together their Data Science, Computation, and Visualization (DSCoV) Workshops schedule for the spring semester, and they're looking for volunteers to give a workshop! 

As we celebrate 10 transformative years at Brown’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), we shine a light on the remarkable faculty and staff who have shaped our first decade and continue to help us go beyond, pushing boundaries and inspiring new possibilities.